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Fiction, Deterritorialization, Oscar Sarkon and Professor Challenger A Response to Philosophical Critiques of Landian Accelerationism - Copy
"Fiction, Deterritorialization, Oscar Sarkon and Professor Challenger A Response to Philosophical Critiques of Landian Accelerationism - Copy" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Core idea
These pages matter because accelerationism is the archive's most overused public keyword. The site needs a cluster that distinguishes history, primer, and public explanation from the doctrine-like certainty that later reception often projects onto the term.
Primers and histories do the work by sorting competing branches, periodizations, and origin stories. They organize a noisy field into public maps that can be argued over, revised, or contested.
That matters because later debates about accelerationism often begin by flattening distinct projects into one thing. This cluster keeps the section anchored in branch logic, genealogy, and disagreement rather than slogan inflation.
How to read this text
Read first for what version of accelerationism the page is naming or periodizing before following its judgment about the movement.
Track how the page distinguishes origins, branches, or public uses. Those distinctions are usually more important than the headline verdict.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 8
1: One or Several Critiques? – 4 2: Deterritorialization – 6 3: Musical Deterritorialization - 10 4: Sarkon and Acceleration - 14 5: Challenger and Acceleration - 19 6: Aesthetics and Hyperstition – 22
Definition · paragraph 61
We know this as acceleration – after all “Deterritorialization is the only thing accelerationism has ever really talked about.”12 We don’t critique the strata, we don’t negate the strata or refuse it, we learn its curvatures and topographies and manipulate and extort them, making them go against their ‘nature’ and therefore, through feedback processes, change their nature.
Definition · paragraph 148
21 In keeping with the notion of voice or audio as an example of deterritorialization (Lucier mentioned earlier). The CCRU’s machinic connections with the research of DC Barker on the voice and its connection to Professor Challenger’s lecture in ATP is of interest:
History · paragraph 145
In class 2, Land and his students discuss Professor Challenger and deterritorialization. Upon reading the plateau, one can easily see how much of its form and content were recapitulated in the early CCRU and later Landian though.
History · paragraph 145
C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It is?), is mandatory reading for Nick Land’s New Center for Research and Practice Class on Metapolitics. In class 2, Land and his students discuss Professor Challenger and deterritorialization. Upon reading the plateau, one can easily see how much of its form and content were recapitulated in the early CCRU and later Landian though.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.